The truly depressing aspect of this, aside from Debord's suicide, is the way the System absorbs even criticism. How is this possible? Is it a process? A formula? A method?
That aspect fascinates me. How even hard criticism of the type published by Debord can become useful to the regime. Is it neutered by absorption?
One tame example is how the TV programme Big Brother circumvents the horror of Orwell's world and his use of the term and reimagines it as mildly invasive surveillance for entertainment purposes, all of it consented to by the participants. This to me neuters the term forever; it can never quite regain the sinister element understood by Orwell. Perhaps this is a similar thing to the capture of Debord's ideas in The Society of the Spectacle.
The process of writing a paper on the effects of TV on children finished my affair with video media forever. Learning to access insight through meditation, but the ultimate teacher is nature.
Wandering in the brush and boreal forest in the depth of winter. Finding dangerous collections of kindling I burn a bit to stay warm and clean the area around majestic trees. Day dreaming of a day when it will be all chipped and used to keep us warm instead of fueling a voracious fire fighting industry.
Hope to howl at the moon and anyone who will hear me for decades more yet. Learning makes me feel young and naive. Recently got through the Gulag Archipelago and now grinding through Operation Paperclip. We shit on Russians to our own demise!
The truly depressing aspect of this, aside from Debord's suicide, is the way the System absorbs even criticism. How is this possible? Is it a process? A formula? A method?
That aspect fascinates me. How even hard criticism of the type published by Debord can become useful to the regime. Is it neutered by absorption?
One tame example is how the TV programme Big Brother circumvents the horror of Orwell's world and his use of the term and reimagines it as mildly invasive surveillance for entertainment purposes, all of it consented to by the participants. This to me neuters the term forever; it can never quite regain the sinister element understood by Orwell. Perhaps this is a similar thing to the capture of Debord's ideas in The Society of the Spectacle.
see thru it!
the spectacle is a conceptual overlay,
which is at odds with phenomenal reality
hence schizophrenia normalcy
'everything we are taught is a lie'
rimbaud
Dick Cheney is too.
The process of writing a paper on the effects of TV on children finished my affair with video media forever. Learning to access insight through meditation, but the ultimate teacher is nature.
Wandering in the brush and boreal forest in the depth of winter. Finding dangerous collections of kindling I burn a bit to stay warm and clean the area around majestic trees. Day dreaming of a day when it will be all chipped and used to keep us warm instead of fueling a voracious fire fighting industry.
Hope to howl at the moon and anyone who will hear me for decades more yet. Learning makes me feel young and naive. Recently got through the Gulag Archipelago and now grinding through Operation Paperclip. We shit on Russians to our own demise!
Great article. Love Debord.